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[GuiltyLion]

Bolded are places where I was surprised at GuiltyLion feeling a little firey, a little overly negative, something off about the vibe.
I dunno maybe I'm inserting a tone that isn't there but I just got negative vibes from a lot of these posts? Like a puppy trying to assert dominance. Whereas I feel like from InnocentLion I'm used to something a bit more like an older dog slowly and professor-ishly catching scum.

No offense @GL I'm just using the best silly metaphor I can think of

hmmm this is interesting

I get where you're coming from, I do think I've been slightly more on the aggressive side this game, but I think that's probably because it's a large with a bunch of vets so I feel I need to be more direct and to the point to actually glean memorable/useful info. and also because one of our past games was a Newbie and I try to put the kiddie gloves on in Newbies

[GuiltyLion]

scamper u stink

Marci town

do tell

how is this post different in your mind than HEM's 103 that you took issue with in 148?

[Nero Cain]

I'm not sure that I buy FB trying to "sort" me. 206 maybe but eh....but I also don't think Ari was trying to either.

[skitter30]

gl like every post you're making rn feels off to me lol

[GuiltyLion]

also people weighing in on Datisi in page 18 - I actually loosely TR Datisi's explanation, or at least think as either alignment he did genuinely plan to reaction test me in that way. And then once I buy that it was a reaction test, I don't really have reason to SR him. I want to trust that if Datisi is town I'll vibe it out correctly so he's not a high priority sort for me right now

@skitter - is that not what happens every game?? I've seen what feels like multiple dead threads this year of you speccing a game and calling me scum

[skitter30]

if i can pocket nero cain this game i can retire knowing i have done it.
ma will be proud of me

so far VP, Ari, FB and maaaaayyybbbbeeee HEM seem a lil scummy. I like GL's stuff on scamper too.

HEM Is my only townread right now. How dare you

Okay Nero can be town

@nero i feel like some of his early posts were sort of nudging you in fire's way to see how you'd react to try to read you

i feel like 267 is a bit premature tho
which is why i only sort of like it

[skitter30]

@skitter - is that not what happens every game?? I've seen what feels like multiple dead threads this year of you speccing a game and calling me scum

i mean fair i suppose but you still feel really wrong and like grating

not like personally but the tone behind your posts is really weird and is just setting off my 'ahhhhhhhhhh something feels off here' meter

and like you're concentrating on the wrong things idk

[scamper]

scamper u stink

Marci town

do tell

how is this post different in your mind than HEM's 103 that you took issue with in 148?

because he quoted a post that seemed quite obviously nai. his response led me to believe it was a non-serious comment, but it felt worth interrogating because sometimes scum gives manufactured townreads for reasons that dont make sense

i didnt necessarily see a real followthrough from hem but also ive kind of moved on from that

[GuiltyLion]

like i'm not out here saying GL is being overly negative, i don't think so, but i understand the pov that can think so and call it out post-by-post

I'm also coming around on a HEM townread, I think this is a very townie post and I got similar vibes from Irrel

@skitter tbh I will cop I ate an edible a while ago so it might be just that. in the meantime if you have scumreads that aren't me I'd like to hear those

[GuiltyLion]

sorry should say really it's the combo of 467 and 470 a few minutes later that vibes town

[GuiltyLion]

I guess I kind of did answer this actually. I think datisi is kind of making up reasons after the fact around his ari play, and part of that is this assumption that I MUST rvs vote dats because I do frequently.

Datisi is well aware that I don't play the opening of games the same all the time. I take different approaches based on my mood and what I think will be interesting. It's just a contrived thought process to me.

this feels... dubious

[skitter30]

tbh you're my main one rn
i was sort of sus ari last night but am not really anymore

[GuiltyLion]

@skitter tbh I will cop I ate an edible

also just gotta say this is NOT any attempt at a crumb, at no point in the future am I going to claim this was a cop crumb or that this has anything to do with my role, I just used a stupid choice of word

reminds me of a game when I said someone's case was not "bulletproof"

[skitter30]

also @gl i think your posts from earlier were also feeling weird so not sure that fully explains it

[GuiltyLion]

I think datisi is kind of making up reasons after the fact around his ari play,

specifically I want to ask about this

do you think 308 is fake? that post felt the most likely to be genuine to me. I don't know if I could buy that scum!Tisi invented this sequence of events on the fly, he was rapidposting around then

[humaneatingmonkey]

@skitter tbh I will cop I ate an edible

also just gotta say this is NOT any attempt at a crumb, at no point in the future am I going to claim this was a cop crumb or that this has anything to do with my role, I just used a stupid choice of word

reminds me of a game when I said someone's case was not "bulletproof"

town

ez

[humaneatingmonkey]

inb4 ive been townreading scum

[humaneatingmonkey]

since we're both high GL, can we vibe and talk casually about the game

what do you think about vpb

[Firebringer]

@nero i feel like some of his early posts were sort of nudging you in fire's way to see how you'd react to try to read you

i was def not reaction testing nero

[GuiltyLion]

I'm trying to parse that out right now with his back and forths with Ausuka and Datisi in the early 20s pages, but it's dense content and I'm genuinely not sure yet. At times it feels like VPB is just going down intellectual lines of questioning for its own sake instead of like, genuinely seeking an answer that will impact his reads - if that makes sense - but I do kinda at least see why he might have latched onto Datisi's squirrelly explanation around the ari post, which is why I wanted to get his thoughts on 308 specifically. I think as either alignment Datisi is trying some like 201 or 301 level early game shenanigans that are giving me WIFOMy mixed signals, so if VPB is just picking up on that similarly and confused I could see it coming from town. but there hasn't been a VPB post that really like rung the bell of towniness yet either

[Firebringer]

GL, you wanna vote FB?

I wanna finish reading up with the game first but I will say so far I haven't found anything to TR in Fire

@Fire can you channel some of that Holiday Dance Energy cause you were like my favoritest most top townread there and I'd like to have that experience again

i don't think i will have energy for anything close to that till maybe day 3. Work hours are killing me and im using this game as a release between my madness not to do more work.

[GuiltyLion]

however I will say Ausuka is a confident townread so if they still hold a strong SR on VPB and it seems grounded, I would currently be willing to sheep/defer to that, certainly interested in hearing it out. need to fully catch up though

[humaneatingmonkey]

i also have that from datisi because this is exactly the same treatment i received when i suspected him early game from a game he doesn't remember anymore.

[humaneatingmonkey]

what did you think about deasveal's assumption on what's going on datisi's head. he seemed really confident.

[humaneatingmonkey]

At times it feels like VPB is just going down intellectual lines of questioning for its own sake instead of like, genuinely seeking an answer that will impact his reads - if that makes sense

this is exactly what i felt as well

im figuring out if it's vpb pushing buttons to generate content or scum trying to fake a push